Isn’t that a bust of Lucius Verus instead? Head seems slimmer and hair curlier than I remember.

This is too stinking cute. I want a sea dragon now.

Only a cunning linguist will get this one.

Would play. The Canker sisters are basically saloon girls already.

Damn, finding a $20 gold piece back then would be like finding a full month’s pay today.

Oh don’t worry, the good days are so far and few between now that they stick out like sore thumbs.

Doubtful, the devs’ kids wouldn’t allow it.

Flanders, Belgium. We’ve been ruled by right-wing austerity hawks for a good decade now, so you hit the nail on the head.

I wish I could afford therapy.

My health insurance only pays for 2 psych vists/y. This is in “socialist utopia” W-EUR.

We shouldn’t mock the US healthcare system, ours is only marginally better.

You wanna know something cool though? If I was alcoholic instead of depressed, I could get help for free.

I hate this entire world and every human being on it, and my parents most of all for bringing me into it.

If it really was a choice I would have become gay decades ago. Gay people seem to know how to have fun.

1 down, 2700ish to go.

Is that screenshot from The Strain?

DemiURGE to kill… rising…

Sounds like a party.

It’s also a tried and true strategy that brought Microsoft to the spot it is now. Evil and corrupt, but very effective. Only eee (embrace, extend, extinguish) is even more insidious because it requires companies to play the long con.

Then again in 2024, I automatically assume “con” first until I see evidence to the contrary.

https://dutchreview.com/culture/dutch-history-crowds-ate-prime-minister/

Nothing will ever top the Dutch though. They once ATE their PM in protest. Not even kidding.

No, but there’s a big difference between a societal paradigm that overrides natural human compassion with, well, the exact opposite and then incentivizes the entire population to participate, or a society in which greed is greed rather than some overarching be-all end-all goal.

Unfortunately, being firmly from a working class family, I can guarantee you that we plebs struggle with the exact same things + actual poverty (not being able to go to a doctor,…).

I wish I could say we’re magically happy for every crumb thrown our way, but we all realize we are scrawny mice at best while the world is ruled by cats.

Thanks for the kind words. I can only hope he feels the same. I wanted to reach out but my insurance advised against it.